sats

It's mainly targeted at cube sats, which are very small satellites with usually one specific task or purpose.

This talk covers the earth-imaging cube sats that comprise the basis for Planet Labs' global-sensing and analytics platform.

For example, it is possible to for a candidate with perfect SATs to fail to get into Harvard.

This is a bias clearly inculcated well before SATs and AP exams, one that affects medics and programmers alike.

This includes things like your SATs test scores, letters of recommendation, application essay and the like.

Beginners question - does their inclination (prohibitively) affect the efficiency of lower orbit weather sats?

For SATs, one way to get high scores is to just take many practice exams.

The Soviets started using it because it would provide good coverage of their very nordic territory, something geostationary sats would not do.

In addition to the sats ISS always has at least one ham radio operator.

That's not to say SATs/test scores are not important - a high SAT score does, all things being equal, improve you chances.

You shouldn't need a yagi to listen to ham sats (transmit you will).

Comparable prices for small sats: Nanoracks quotes 60,000$/1U (usually ~1kg) to the ISS.

But the grandparent comment said "It's mainly targeted at cube sats".

SATs, grades in high school, and the rest of the college admissions stuff filters very heavily on algorithmic intelligence ("understand the rules and be willing and able to play by them perfectly") and more-or-less not at all on reflective intelligence.

These types of interviews work really well for the "I got 1600 on my SATs and went to {insert high profile school here} crowd" There are books out there just to prep you for Google interviews I see these as very similar to SAT test prep books.